The Fate of Finance at TIME Global Forum
Posted on 17. Aug, 2010 by iheidi in Business
A conversation between Josef Ackerman (Deutsche Bank), Shaukat Aziz (Pakistan), Richard Parsons (Citigroup), Nicholas Stern (LSE), Meredith Whitney (Meredith Whitney Group) In this session, heavyweight bankers and economists talked about the state of the world after the global financial crisis. To understand the state of Europe, Josef said it was necessary to see whether Europe [...]
Africa The New Growth Frontier at TIME Global Forum
Posted on 17. Aug, 2010 by iheidi in Business, featured, green
A conversation between Koos Bekker (Naspers), Jonathan Oppenheimer (De Beers), Iqbal Sharma (DTI), Lorenzo Simonelli (GE Transportation) In this session, the ins and outs of doing business in Africa were shared, from the perspectives of various people in business. Lorenzo spoke of the need for a long term outlook when engaging with Africa (a minimum [...]
Reflections on 2010 at TIME Global Forum
Posted on 17. Aug, 2010 by iheidi in Business, life
A few minutes with Danny Jordaan (SA FIFA) and François Pienaar (Ons Bokkie) Why did South Africa get to host the World Cup? It was, of course, only because Tutu promised the members of the organizing committee that he would make sure they’d get a first class ticket to heaven! …With this story, Danny opened [...]
The Irrational Fear of Big Agencies – another rant
Posted on 21. Jul, 2010 by vincenthofmann in Marketing, featured
Ever walked into the entrance of a “big agency” and been silenced by the low hum of creative energy? The cracks and snaps in the air punctuated by the sound of bare feet shifting along the corridors? Nope neither have I. I always feel like I’m one boardroom away from a room full of creatives [...]
Bourbon Coffee Rwanda’s successful coffee brand
Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by vincenthofmann in Business, Culture, Marketing, featured
Starbucks is coming to South Africa, and Africa’s retort is? Bourbon Coffee. Arthur Karuletwa, who worked for Proctor & Gamble Co. in Seattle and whose wife worked for Starbucks Corp returned to Rwanda to help sort out his beleaguered homeland. Karuletwa’s plan was to halt the exodus of Rwandan coffee beans for low profits and ultimately little revenue for [...]
Feelgood (the social network for do-gooders!)
Posted on 19. May, 2010 by tasha in Finance
So, we’re so excited about this one we decided to skip the marketing-speak. It’s called FEELGOOD, and you can find it at feelgood.jacarandafm.com. All it is is a social network dedicated to achieving real-world social goals. Right now, there’s a group up there for Jacaranda 94.2′s Winter Warmer project. It demonstrates the concept really well. Winter [...]
Martha Stewart at Design Indaba 2010
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by iheidi in Business, Design, Food
Let them eat cake. She might as well have said it. (Or it might have been, Let them eat pork, with glitter?) Poor Martha. She was savaged, by an audience that walked out en masse. How could she have gotten it so wrong? How did she manage to alienate her audience so thoroughly? Was it [...]
A Conversation with Nussbaum: Expect the Unpredictable
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by iheidi in Business, Design
So, I had the opportunity to chat to design guru Bruce Nussbaum, an approachable yet highly intelligent man, who writes a popular blog for Business Week. When asked to elaborate on his thoughts on the book The Black Swan, which he had mentioned in his Design Indaba talk, Nussbaum told me that he has learnt [...]
Bruce Nussbaum at Design Indaba 2010
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by iheidi in Business, Design
Casually, he strolled on to stage, to face more than a thousand people, and announced that what he really felt like, that morning, was to have an intimate conversation…. About ‘designomics’ and the future. His introduction to ‘designomics’ was that we live in a world of constant, cascading change. A world in which design has [...]
My quick take on the Woolies Lovebirds campaign
Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by vincenthofmann in Business, Marketing, featured
I was recently asked to comment on the Woolworths LoveBirds campaign and in a matter of a few minutes jotted down some notes on the campaign for Bizcommunity. Please take note that this was done in a rush, but I like it like that. Feel free to correct any inaccuracies which might appear in the [...]
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